Jon_Hodl
Jon Hodl

Humble Bitcoin stacktivist | Cypherpunk Artist | Royalty-Free Photographer | CoinJoin or Die 🏴‍☠️

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2026-03-12 01:18:59 UTC

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Test

2025-06-25 04:07:50 UTC

Literally all you need to do is stay humble, stack sats, and HODL for a while.
It’s that simple.
https://blossom.primal.net/fe1f3e94b1216a7037296eb57dd8de33ee36cc721c643b525dc068abe8e9748b.jpg

2024-11-19 02:50:08 UTC

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Love to see this!!!
London’s finest doing the work.

2024-10-03 04:18:51 UTC

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Yes, please.

2024-10-03 04:04:03 UTC

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I totally agree and self custody is the most important thing to combat all the fraud.

2024-10-03 04:01:08 UTC

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Absolutely.

2024-09-26 03:05:40 UTC

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Isn’t Ben Lawsky (founding father of the NY Bit License) involved with NYDIG?

2024-09-24 18:15:23 UTC

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Looks great. I'm glad I waited a bit.

2024-09-24 18:01:49 UTC

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Congrats! It's a great feeling to use a SeedSigner to generate your own seed phrase.
The plebs at Cyphermunk are London's finest.

2024-09-24 17:25:36 UTC

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Nice. Looking forward to updates

2024-09-24 03:30:01 UTC

Can anyone actually see this?

2024-09-24 02:55:15 UTC

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Agreed. Use a VPN at the very least.

2024-03-16 09:09:10 UTC

If you’re in London on March 27-29, be sure to check out this free bitcoin art exhibition from a friend of mine.
Some of London’s best plebs will be there.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-waste-paper-27-29-march-tickets-855408749597?aff=oddtdtcreator

2024-03-16 09:06:01 UTC

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Great post

2024-02-01 12:54:09 UTC

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Amazing work.
Do you have any still frames available? I would love to get images of orange pills released to the world for free.
I would absolutely use them in my own work.

2024-02-01 12:45:36 UTC

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They can fuck right off.

2024-01-18 11:48:19 UTC

21 Tools To Orange Pill Your Friends And Family
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/culture/tools-to-orange-pill-friends-family

2023-11-14 12:37:01 UTC

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I’ll look into this in greater detail.
As for Wasabi, even with Tor, Wasabi “CoinJoins” are routinely broken with even basic chain analysis. There’s a team of Bitcoiners actively helping the guy who had 25 bitcoin stolen from him. It’s quite easy to follow the flow of money on-chain post Wasabi mix.
…and you can’t even use Wasabi’s coordinator because they are in bed with chain analysis and block UTXOs if they don’t like them.

2023-11-14 08:42:43 UTC

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I appreciate the feedback.
Are you here to shill Wasabi?

2023-11-14 08:41:31 UTC

Killing The Sean In The Coal Mine
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/privacy/swan-in-the-coal-mine

2023-11-08 11:29:45 UTC

How To CoinJoin with Sparrow Wallet
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/guides/how-to-coinjoin-with-sparrow-wallet

2023-11-03 09:45:48 UTC

The War On Bitcoin Is Here and it’s just getting started.
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/politics/war-on-bitcoin-is-here

2023-10-23 10:14:51 UTC

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Nope. Looks like there will be another Election Day on November 9th.

2023-10-23 10:10:28 UTC

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Have you tried RoboSats?

2023-10-23 10:09:59 UTC

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Switch to Brave browser or the MullVad browser. It has completely changed my browsing experience. I almost never see banner ads and I can even use a special reading mode that is nothing but text. It doesn’t even show widgets or all of the other fluff in the margins.

2023-10-23 09:56:49 UTC

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Not good

2023-10-22 17:08:49 UTC

Should you buy bitcoin or mine it?
The short answer is…yes.
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/mining/buy-bitcoin-or-mine-it

2023-09-29 14:46:50 UTC

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Tell me more

2023-09-29 11:14:32 UTC

https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/philosophy/high-and-low-time-preference

2023-08-25 06:25:34 UTC

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That’s pretty good. I was an Uber driver for a bit and enjoyed it but I hated that I wasn’t building any clientele or long term value.

2023-08-25 06:21:12 UTC

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Europe is amazing but the EU is such a dumpster fire.

2023-07-14 11:14:58 UTC

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…and probably a bunch of crack residue in your upholstery

2023-07-12 18:35:10 UTC

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*The Bitcoin White Paper enters the chat*

2023-06-11 09:12:57 UTC

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IMHO, this is a feature and not a bug.
Bitcoin is a decentralized country of people all around the world and our money has a larger market capitalization than most fiat currencies.
https://fiatmarketcap.com/
Whenever people say that bitcoin uses as much energy as country X, I always reply with “yeah, because we are a peer-to-peer economy larger than that country.”

2023-06-10 20:46:30 UTC

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Awesome! What do you do for them?
Are they still making calendars?

2023-06-10 20:43:58 UTC

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Aren’t these the stickers from the ideas are like flames calendar?

2023-06-10 20:43:13 UTC

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RoboSats is excellent.
Very excited to watch it grow.

2023-06-03 09:25:06 UTC

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AI will make the floor plans where consumers can shop them online and then a prefab building kit will be built in China, loaded onto ships by AI robots, unloaded by robots, and transported to the job site where it will (most likely) be assembled by humans.
Chat GPT def can’t do it all but that doesn’t mean that AI and automation aren’t coming for construction jobs.

2023-05-28 19:00:32 UTC

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Honestly, I have no idea but at the very least I have increased privacy on-chain and you can’t just see which UTXOs I own simply by looking back on the blockchain to see where finds originated.

2023-05-28 14:56:45 UTC

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Yes. Great book by one of Bitcoin’s finest. Matt spends the first half of the book summarizing the core Bitcoiner ethos. It’s focused on not thinking that you’re too good for bitcoin or that you’re somehow more entitled to use bitcoin than those who purchased their first fraction of a bitcoin after you or who have less money than you do.
Then Matt spends the second half of his thesis defending his position on how Bitcoiners might want to preserve the value of their labor by using bitcoin as savings. His overall position is that over time, your savings increases in size both in terms of bitcoin as we as an increase in purchasing power against goods, services, and fiat currencies.
To summarize, he wants anyone who chooses to use bitcoin to exercise humility and to acquire more bitcoin than they might already have.
5 ⭐️ on Amazon and Good Reads for sure.

2023-05-28 11:08:31 UTC

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Highly underrated insight.

2023-05-28 05:34:02 UTC

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It’s not an insult, bro and I’m not “calling out” anybody. I’m merely stating that’s how Google ads work.
It’s serving you those kinds of ads because you’re a Bitcoiner. You’ve probably been cookie’d by dozens of websites and based on those cookies, you’re seeing ripple ads.
I get served all sorts of irrelevant crypto ads on all sorts of websites I visit.

2023-05-27 19:18:58 UTC

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This is a Google Ad which does retargeting based on your search history.
If you’re seeing this ad, it’s because Google thinks you’re part of their target audience based on your search history and websites you’ve visited with Google cookies.
Honestly, it says more about you and your search history than it does about Bitcoin magazine.

2023-05-27 19:13:19 UTC

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Furthermore, you can remove the logos from the launch screen.
🤦🏻‍♂️

2023-05-27 11:59:12 UTC

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If EV drive down demand/price of fossil fuels, people will simply consume more of them.
There’s an economic principle or “law” that describes this but I can’t find it atm.

2023-05-27 11:51:58 UTC

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Well said.

2023-05-27 11:50:01 UTC

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Did you pay with fiat via Strike and he then converts the fiat into bitcoin via DCA? Or are the cheese vendor and farmer different people?

2023-05-27 11:41:50 UTC

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The Book Of Boogalations

2023-05-27 11:36:21 UTC

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Umbrel mobile node?

2023-05-26 20:24:40 UTC

Can we make this the new Zap symbol? https://nostr.build/i/9f2649dc4b1674acb4e83c10528a08a23f0a92dbb42c63bef0864c63f61b3cff.jpg

2023-05-25 04:19:49 UTC

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Snort on Umbrel is pretty slick.
Haven’t tried plebstr yet

2023-05-24 18:01:03 UTC

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Very nice. I’ve been wanting to make one of these.
Any idea if this is able to calculate the final checksum word if you randomly select all of the other words?

2023-05-24 17:51:15 UTC

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Zaps are best. Likes help me know what the community values but what I care about most is that my notes actually get read by someone who benefits from the content of the note.

2023-05-24 17:44:56 UTC

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💯

2023-05-24 17:08:54 UTC

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Same.
Once you’ve used it, it’s hard to use anything else.

2023-05-09 12:39:21 UTC

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I just watched the video and it’s full of inaccuracies.
It says that you don’t need to rely on any trusted third parties but the CoinJoin coordinator is a trusted third party and if you’re not running your own node, then you’re relying on another trusted third party.
The lack of coin control is bad for privacy because now Wasabi is in charge of selecting your UTXOs on your behalf which is another trusted third party.
I’d love to be proven wrong but this is not anonymous or private by default.

2023-05-09 12:30:36 UTC

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What do you mean “privacy by default”?
You still need to connect to your own node and Wasabi works with chain analysis companies.

2023-05-08 15:34:27 UTC

Just published this new piece today.
How To Use Bitcoin Anonymously
https://www.whatisbitcoin.com/privacy/how-to-use-bitcoin-anonymously

2023-05-08 13:28:53 UTC

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What I’m wondering is “Why haven’t we seen an uptick in the hashrate with these absurd fees?”

2023-05-04 21:10:42 UTC

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Can you link me to this service?

2023-05-04 20:48:51 UTC

What is the best way to buy bitcoin in Ghana?

2023-04-24 05:04:23 UTC

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Solid stack.
Have you used the Brave search engine?
Also, what browser do you use?

2023-04-22 06:00:58 UTC

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Solid flex, brother.

2023-04-22 05:42:22 UTC

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Wasabi or JoinMarket?

2023-04-22 05:32:20 UTC

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I would love to see a pic of this when you’re done. I’ve been on the fence about buying this case.

2023-04-22 05:31:32 UTC

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This is the way, Derek.
I’ve been moving a number of newer users further down the rabbit hole at my local meetup. Got a couple people running their own nodes and using CoinJoin.
Next comes getting them to use post-mix privacy tools and practices.

2023-04-22 05:23:32 UTC

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…and RoboSats

2023-03-31 17:32:20 UTC

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Voltage good.
Celsius bad.

2023-03-31 17:19:39 UTC

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What are you gonna do with em?

2023-03-31 17:17:14 UTC

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Yeah. It’s like a massive public forum where everything is written in stone forever.

2023-03-31 11:59:58 UTC

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Absolutely. I had almost completely stopped any private messaging on Nostr before I learned this.
Now I will completely stop using Nostr for any and all private communications.
Nostr is only for public notes and other public stuff.

2023-03-31 08:17:18 UTC

I’m just now learning that the date and time of DMs are completely public and can be viewed with nothing but an npub key.
I can’t read your DM but I can know who you’re talking to and when.

2023-03-28 20:43:04 UTC

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I interpret it as one per order

2023-03-28 20:42:08 UTC

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For those of us who don’t know, can you help us know? Ya know?

2023-03-27 19:32:52 UTC

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You might enjoy Mattermost

2023-03-27 07:20:48 UTC

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It’s pretty good.
You might also enjoy American Animals.

2023-03-25 08:06:23 UTC

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Ahh yes. That’s right.
I almost never use mobile for on-chain sends so it’s been a while since I’ve tried that.

2023-03-25 07:46:12 UTC

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Yes
Sparrow is the only wallet I’ve found with that functionality.

2023-03-24 19:52:02 UTC

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I remember as a kid, we used to go to my grandparents house and they had a bowl of peanuts 🥜 on the coffee table but you had to crack them open to get to the nuts inside.
I thought my grandpa’s shoe horn was for cracking the peanuts open.
Fast forward to my young adult years and I’m at a store and I’m like, “oh nice, a peanut cracker.” …and my friend was like, “Jon, that’s to slip into your shoes easier.”
At least your daughter knows that a shoe horn is for putting on shoes …at age 12.

2023-03-21 20:17:17 UTC

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What causes this?
Sending the exact same amount from one address to the other…twice?

2023-03-21 20:16:04 UTC

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What causes this to happen?

2023-03-21 20:12:31 UTC

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Don’t waste time chase butterflies.
Build a garden.

2023-03-21 20:09:34 UTC

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Agreed.
Probably just stream sats with a service like Breez to scale usage up and down as needed.

2023-03-21 13:34:14 UTC

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Yes. It’s just way lower than all fiat currencies and can be audited and verified with very little expertise and hardware.

2023-03-20 11:53:55 UTC

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These charts are so good, man.
Keep ‘em coming.

2023-03-19 17:58:38 UTC

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Me too.

2023-03-19 17:55:44 UTC

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Amazing post.

2023-03-19 17:54:51 UTC

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This warms my heart.
I have often wondered where the Dutch stand on this issue.
This help me to understand.
Are you from the Netherlands?

2023-03-19 17:52:59 UTC

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At some point, in the not-so-distant future, I plan to produce tutorials that walk new users through this EXACT sort of thing.

2023-03-19 17:44:34 UTC

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💯

2023-03-19 17:43:39 UTC

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Precisely at 840,000

2023-03-19 17:31:35 UTC

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I’m mean, by default, it already IS a block explorer if you’re running code to explore block data.
It’s a great looking tool with an easy to understand interface. I’m sure others (like me) would use it as well.
I’d zap that.

2023-03-19 17:28:13 UTC

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I need to know what this means and how to do it.
Sounds like a great tutorial opportunity.

2023-03-19 17:26:29 UTC

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💯

2023-03-19 12:47:17 UTC

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What block explorer is this?

2023-03-19 06:59:35 UTC

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🎯

2023-03-18 17:33:59 UTC

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Agreed
Hypothetically, if he has $10 million worth of bitcoin, pumping the price even 10% with his bet is a wash (0 risk) bet.
The more bitcoin he has, the lower the risk.
Anything that pumps his bags more than $1,000,000 is just gravy money.

2023-03-18 12:09:56 UTC

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Super sus but I’m looking forward to the game theory between multiple clients playing out.

2023-03-18 12:07:10 UTC

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Hi Sean

2023-03-18 07:29:57 UTC

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I’m a huge fan of SeedSigner and I wish the 1.3s were still available cause I’d love to build more of them.
Recently, I heard that SeedSigners code is “not reproducible” or something like that and as a result, it can’t be considered open source.
Any idea what that means?